Immune Cell Fat Switch: Losing RORα Worsens Blinding Eye Disease in Mice
Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of irreversible blindness in older adults, has long been linked to cholesterol and fat ...
Gene Networks Point to Interferon Decline as Driver of Severe Dengue in India
Dengue virus infects an estimated 390 million people each year, and roughly 96 million of them develop clinical or subclinical ...
Gamified avatars and neon dashboards may be quietly sabotaging workplace virtual reality
Extended reality has spent a decade proving that it can work in professional settings. Surgeons plan operations in virtual models, ...
Immune Receptor FcγRIIb Emerges as Gatekeeper of Parkinson’s Protein Spread
Parkinson’s disease is defined by the slow, relentless spread of a misfolded protein called alpha-synuclein through the brain, a process ...
Darker, Iron-Rich Waters Could Rewire Ocean Food Weefs
… The browning of coastal waters has emerged as one of the more visually striking signatures of global change in ...
How AI Is Speeding the Hunt for Cheaper, Safer Sodium-Ion Battery Materials
Sodium-ion batteries have long promised a cheaper, safer alternative to the lithium-ion cells that power everything from phones to electric ...
Forever chemicals found in Vietnam’s fish, but regulation has yet to catch up
Vietnam’s rivers, lakes, and coastal waters are quietly accumulating one of the most stubborn classes of synthetic chemicals ever manufactured, ...
SON Protein Keeps GC-Rich Genes Splicing Smoothly, Study Reveals
Deep inside the nucleus of every human cell, thousands of genes are being copied into RNA and stitched together with ...
Simplified, Picture-Enhanced Texts Boost Sexual Health Literacy in Ghanaian Teens
A school-based experiment in Ghana has delivered a strikingly simple message with potentially far-reaching consequences: when it comes to teaching ...
Miniaturized Human Cell Assay Promises Faster, Cheaper Screening of Anti-Obesity Drugs
Obesity has become one of the defining health challenges of the twenty-first century. According to the World Health Organization, more ...
Wild Elephants Use Dozens of Deliberate Gestures to Defuse Conflict, Study Finds
Wild African savannah elephants appear to do something remarkable during their frequent squabbles: they talk each other down with their ...
Night Watch: Infrared Cameras Reveal the Secret First Ten Days of Zoo-Born Duiker Calves
In the quiet hours after closing time at Frankfurt Zoo, infrared cameras recorded something rarely seen by human eyes: the ...
Movement-Proof Wireless Power Brings Battery-Free Soft Implants Closer to the Clinic
One of the most stubborn obstacles in implantable medicine is not the implant itself but the battery that keeps it ...
Chemists Use Vibrational Fingerprints to Sieve Carbon-13 Straight from CO2
Carbon-13 is one of the most quietly indispensable tools in modern science. Because it is a stable, non-radioactive isotope of ...
Transposon tool maps the essential genes of diverse phages
Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, yet for most of the genes packed into their compact genomes, ...
Light-Patterned DNA Tags Give Single-Cell Sequencing a Sense of Place
Every cell in the body carries essentially the same genome, yet what distinguishes a neuron from a liver cell is ...
Fungal Partners Supercharge Cyanobacteria to Bind Toxic Mine Sand Into Living Crusts
Mine tailings are among the most inhospitable landscapes humans have created: vast expanses of crushed quartz sand with virtually no ...
Two Molecular Heart Failure Types Revealed by Deep Protein Maps of the Failing Heart
Heart failure has always been classified by its causes: a blocked artery here, a stiffened or enlarged heart muscle there, ...
Zero-Dimensional Semiconductor Design Eliminates Defects for Sharper X-ray Imaging
X-ray imaging is one of medicine’s most powerful windows into the human body, and its usefulness rests on a class ...
Spatial Hi-C Maps 3D Genome Folding Directly Inside Brain Tissue
Every cell in the mammalian brain carries the same genome, yet neurons in the cerebellar granule layer behave nothing like ...